About Milling Axial Offset Passes

Inventor HSM supports Axial offset passes that allow you to repeat the calculated toolpath in steps in the Z direction.

Axial offset passes work much like multiple finishing stepdowns in the 2D operations and are useful for removing a fixed amount of stock in several steps. As an example, if you have 1 mm of stock left you can remove this in five passes of 0.2 mm using parallel finishing.



Axial offset passes settings



Without axial offset passes



With three axial offset passes